Wellington City and Te Papa

Entrance of Te Papa

 

Foyer Doors...I bought this painting as a postcard

and sent it home with a letter for my family XO

Me, in front of the Impressionists Exhibition.

It was a NO CAMERA zone *sniff*

I won't repeat myself here but photos and story of my trip

 into Wellington City and my visit to Te Papa are HERE 

Time: 7 hours (Sunday 1st September)

Te Papa/Art Gallery/WearableArts

Photography, Art Inspiration

Sunday: Visit to a Sculpture Gallery

My lovely new friend Gisele is a sculptress (is that a term??) and also does bronze art. She invited me to come with her into Wellington to see where she works with other artists, sculpting.

Setting up out the front of the art gallery to work 

Gisele with her in progress sculpture

It will be carved out and have a light placed inside

another sculptress

 ..and her design

 Another sculpture using Oamaru Stone

Love the contrasting texture

 ..another angle.

 Inside the art gallery is a bronze sculpting work space.
Bronze Sculpture, I learned, is an over
a thousand year old art and uses a process
called LOST WAX BRONZE CASTING

A mould is taken of the original piece. We use the highest quality polyester resins, silicone, fibre-glass resin and plaster jackets. We can ensure nil shrinkage at the mould-making stage to ensure less distortion of the final bronze castings.A wax model is pulled from the mould. Each model is then methodically worked on to ensure exact replication of the original artwork/design.
We then “spru” the wax model into castable bronze trees which allow molten bronze to flow smoothly through “gates” which are carefully constructed. The ‘gated’ wax model is ready to be dipped in six to ten coats of special refractory material. Each piece is carefully time-dried and handled. This process coats the wax model, encasing it in a hard ceramic ‘shell’ which can withstand heat upwards of 1200 degrees Celsius. [Source: Internet]

These were two of my favourite!

These caught my eye, also...

This is Macrocarpa

but I can't remember which type of wood this was..

 Another one of Gisele's sculpture

 Chipping...

sanding...

 and more sanding.

After chatting, learning and observing for a couple of hours
I hopped on a bus back to the Railway Station
to get a train out to my Sister-in-law's...

Time: 3 hours (10 March) 

Art Gallery visit/3D Sculpture

Travelling by bus to Wellinton

On Thursday I travelled by bus to Wellington

I got a front seat view out the window

 Not too much traffic on the Motorway

 It was so very very dry....all the way down

  We went passed WINTEC in Hamilton, 

where my daughter is studying Vet Nursing..

 A few clouds on the horizon...

 Lake Taupo

 Further South we go....

..and still bone dry with clear blue skies!

 The setting sun

 Nearly there in Wellington! 

Time: 1 hour (7 March) Photography

Auckland Art Gallery - Part 2

Part Two...

This selection was so contrasting to the NZ artists!

I felt the need to capture some images
 of these beautiful romantic paintings.

I knew Miss 17 would appreciate them too....

and who wouldn't love this next

paintingby John Waterhouse!

Some other things that caught my eye...

from another angle...

 I thought this "ballerina" was kind of interesting too...

 

 

 Love the idea of using a table cloth!

A very large knitted octopus!

..a close up pic...

I love this "self portrait"...

 I love the different coloured puzzle

pieces and the black shading

I think this is amazing. It looks SO real to me!

You wouldn't think it was fibre-glass just looking at it.

Again, another triptych I found really inspiring.

I've just been googling  Rosalie Gascoigne on

the Internet and have enjoyed reading about what

 has inspired her and the materials used in her work.

 

I love how the pieces "break away"

 

 

Fascinating! I really want to try this sort of thing...

Wow...amazing glass collection!

 

 

Love the use of corrugated iron as the support

..and I love this beautifully made window...
and so cool about it's history!

 

So neat they salvaged these pilasters

from the original building when remodelling

This exhibition by Tiffany Singh was very inspiring also.

 So many ideas and inspiration!

I felt really exhausted after all this visual 

stimulation and it was almost closing time. 

As I walked back to the Hostel 

I went past this sculpture

I love that it's a bird on a ring

but it also reminds me of a hand...

Very ingenious!

Time at Gallery: 3 hours (6 March)

plus 6 hours editing photos/

uploading to blog (15 March)

TOTAL: 9 hours